[41 Vict.]
Poor Law Guardians Election {Ireland).
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A BILL
TO Provide for the Election of Poor Law Guardians in Ireland a.d.
1878.
by Ballot.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide that in all contested
elections for Poor Law Guardians in Ireland the poll shall he taken by ballot, and that every elector entitled to vote thereat shall do so in his own proper person : 5 Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
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Every contested election of any Poor Law Guardians or From 1st 10 Guardian that shall take place after the first day of March one ^^y.
1879
* u u u elections to thousand eight hundred and seventy nine shall be conducted by be conducted ballot, and the poll at every such election shall, so far as circum-^ 1:,allot« stances admit, be taken in the manner now prescribed by law for taking the poll at contested municipal elections in Ireland.
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Before the first of October next the Local Government Board Local
of Ireland shall frame such general regulations for the management BoarT^^ of elections of Poor Law Guardians as may be necessary for carrying frame regu-out the provisions of this Act, with similar penalties for the breach ^1\<S.
order, of such regulations as are now provided by the law regulating 20 municipal elections in Ireland.
They shall by such regulations
prescribe and appoint the person who is to be returning officer at such elections, and the place at which the polling is to take place, and they may also make such regulations as they shall think fit for regulating the mode of nominating candidates, the interval that 25 is to elapse between the nomination and the poll, and all such other
matters as may be necessary to provide for the management of such elections.
All such regulations shall be made by sealed order, and may from time to time be varied and repealed, and new regulations made by sealed order.
[Bill 17.]
